From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 21 10: 4:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1C5514D1E for ; Sun, 21 Mar 1999 10:04:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr06.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA11457; Sun, 21 Mar 1999 12:00:37 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr06.primenet.com(206.165.6.206) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd011441; Sun Mar 21 12:00:34 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr06.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA11607; Sun, 21 Mar 1999 11:04:08 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199903211804.LAA11607@usr06.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Gigabit ethernet -- what am I doing wrong? To: dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon) Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 18:04:08 +0000 (GMT) Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, wes@softweyr.com, ckempf@enigami.com, wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199903141920.LAA93395@apollo.backplane.com> from "Matthew Dillon" at Mar 14, 99 11:20:28 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > You can always do a card-to-card transfer, but since most modern network > cards do *NOT* have on-card memory doing a card-to-card transfer typically > doesn't work. You mean "most recent network cards". Modern networks cards have memory that can be DMA'ed into by other modern network cards. Moral: being of later manufacture makes you more recent, but being capable of data higher rates is what makes you modern. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message